Install Python 3 to /usr/bin/ on macOS
Question or issue on macOS: I installed python2.x and python3.x using homebrew and the executable python paths are listed below:
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Matplotlib text bounding box dimensions
Question or issue on macOS: I want to get the position and dimensions of a text instance in matplotlib world units (not screen pixels), with the intention of calculating and preventing text overlaps. I’m developing on Mac OSX 10.9.3, Python 2.7.5, matplotlib 1.3.1. Let t be a text instance. So, how can I get the […]
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How to install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev on Mac os
Question or issue on macOS: I have installed both libxml2 and libxslt with homebrew, but it doesn’t want to install libxml2-dev or libxslt-dev: Error: No available formula for libxml2-dev
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How to get active window title using Python in Mac?
Question or issue on macOS: I am trying to write the Python script which prints the title of the active window using python in Mac OS.
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Building Python 3 on OS X: [Python/importlib.h] Error 133
Question or issue on macOS: I am trying to build Python (3.5.2) on OS X El Capitan (10.11.5). However, I run into an error when I try to make it. The error seems to be related to _freeze_importlib.
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OSX Pillow Incompatible library version libtiff.5.dylib & libjpeg.8.dylib
Question or issue on macOS: I’ve got this error while trying to use Pilow on any scripts:
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Install Gtk 3 for python on mac
Question or issue on macOS: I have installed python gtk3 using homebrew but it prints
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Undo “Install Certificates.command”
Question or issue on macOS: In Python 3.6+ on Mac, various SSL-related operations will fail (typically with a cryptic SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED error) until you run /Applications/Python\ 3.6/Install\ Certificates.command to install root certificates. After encountering such an error, I Googled, eventually discovered this solution (which is noted at, e.g. https://bugs.python.org/issue29065#msg283984), did it, and it worked.
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Why would `killpg` return “not permitted” when ownership is correct?
Question or issue on macOS: I’ve got some code which fork()s, calls setsid() in the child, and starts some processing. If any of the children quit (waitpid(-1, 0)), I kill all the child process groups:
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Trouble Installing Pygame on Mac OSX
Question or issue on macOS: Here is my error message:
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